Meteorite news

Meteorite news

Meteorite news

1) Apparently, a lot of pieces from the Texas fireball have now been recovered. Geology.com has a great written account of a meteorite hunter who, along with a group of other rock hunters, found something like 100 pieces of the falling rock. There are fantastic pictures of the meteorites as well. Hurray!

Advertisement

2) A big bolide was seen over Finland earlier today. A news report claims a rock fell all the way down to the ground, but I don't think that's actually confirmed. Also, they say it came in at 15 meters/second, which is slower than highway speeds. I think they meant kilometers/second, but I guess the metric system confuses Europeans sometimes, too. Anyway, it's snowy there, so it's unlikely they'll find any meteorite even if it does exist.

Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science evangelizer, and author of Death From the Skies!